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...this were a polished writing job, it would be one more of those slick commercial novels about an ad agency. Instead, it is clumsy, serious and painstaking, and perhaps as a consequence, considerably more enlightening. The agency involved is called Gibbs & Wilson, and at G. & W. creativity is king, writers venerated, research unheard of. The hero is Copy Chief Jim Bower, a dour, taciturn fellow known throughout the trade for lines like (to sell a brand of vodka): "Tell your mother-in-law it's potato soup-she'll love it." When Jim sits down...
...freshly seeded. Outside the stadium, kids threw rocks, and Chick Cassady, the Airplane's manager, allegedly encouraged the youngsters to do battle with the police. When the tear gas cleared, the cops had arrested Cassady, the Airplane's Paul Kantner and Kantner's "old lady" Grace Slick, who either attacked the fuzz or-depending on who was telling the story-was attacked by them. The three paid a $1,400 bond and promised to show up for a September trial "because we're not guilty and, besides, this could happen to any other group that comes...
...though their efforts came across only as exploitation. They lacked the genuine touch which permeated Miami Beach during the Democratic Convention. And whether they really do seek progress or not--a question left unsettled by their Convention behavior--the Republicans have backed into a campaign which will pit the slick media front born of big money against the grass-roots tactics of a hazily-etched, emerging political camp...
...Super Fly comes through as a pretty slick package. Backed by vibrant Curtis Mayfield songs about pusher men, it may just present its audience with a dream image; but this image is healthier than the others that are being pushed around...
...with a few lady friends. Wendy S. MacNeil shows Elizabeth Saltonstall kindly staring at us with her heritage eyes. Lee Post found four young and Lolitaesque Cambridge girls giving different renditions of the sexiest pose. Lawson Corbett's "Guys will be dolls" showed the transvestite in the dressing room--slick, sexy, and confusing. William M. Burke introduces "Clint", a regular-looking youngish man; his mobile home and car sit behind...